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Art Between the Wars: Totalitarianism v. the Avant-Garde

Art Between the Wars: Totalitarianism v. the Avant-Garde

Guildhall LibraryCity of London ·Tue 8 Dec · 2pm
Free

A lecture by Tate Lecturer Val Woodgate on how Nazi rule condemned avant-garde art as degenerate, including the 1937 Munich exhibition that displayed confiscated works to mock them. AI summary of the listing

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Please note: Booking is Essential Political and social upheavals in the nineteen twenties and thirties had a profound effect on art and were to inspire some of the greatest works of modern art in the first half of the twentieth century. Under the Nazis, avant-garde art was condemned as Degenerate, and in 1937 the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) Exhibition in Munich displayed confiscated artistic masterpieces, put…

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